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[quote=Anonymous]We give two weeks of vacation of nanny's choosing and one week of sick days, plus ten holidays (matching up to what we get--no Veterans or Columbus, but I think maybe Presidents Day is on the list? I never remember if I get that one!) It is also common in our area to do one week of nanny's choosing, one week of family's choosing.

I am personally not okay with doing three weeks of PTO in lieu of two weeks vacation/one week sick, because I think it encourages an employee to come to work sick in order to save the PTO for a longer trip. (I feel this way not just in the nanny situation, but in any employment situation, FWIW, and believe strongly in paid sick leave, so I feel that I should support that in the one little area in which I do actually have some control.)

In your situation, assuming you really like this candidate otherwise, I'd simply say that you'll approve a three-week leave, but that only two of the three weeks will be paid. Then when she takes that time, you can find a temporary caregiver for that chunk of time, which in some ways is actually a bit easier than trying to cobble together a week here and a week there. (We've done both in different years.) Alternatively, if you were planning one week of her choosing and one of yours, you can tell her that only one week will be paid of the three if she takes the vacation in such-and-such month, but if she takes it in one of the months you identify when you could also take your vacation week, you can coordinate. That gets a lot more complicated, though.[/quote]

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